Category: Upper School – King Alfred School
An emotional farewell to our Year 11s
Happy tears were shed at our annual Year 11 Leavers’ Breakfast, as students, parents and staff gathered to mark the start of GCSE study leave. Form tutors shared words of praise for each of their students, whilst Head of Year 11 Lynne Sasson emotionally recounted their collective journey over the five years of Upper School….
Creativity brings cultures together
Displaced young people visited The King Alfred School over the course of eight weeks for a project that saw the sharing of cultures, cuisines and creativity. KAS students collaborated with the Babylon Migrants Project, an organisation that encourages personal development, teamwork, and self-expression in young people from refugee, asylum seeking and migrant backgrounds. In four…
Parents marvel at end-of-term exhibition: “A clear love of learning”
Two fantastic student exhibitions took place at the end of Spring Term, with Years 7 & 8 proudly showing off the culmination of a term’s work. Year 7 Parents were invited into school to view Year 7’s final projects based on two enquiry questions: ‘Is space exploration ethical?’ in STEM and ‘Should we fear or…
Ski trip 2025: a student (and teacher’s) perspective!
This year’s annual ski trip saw a group of 40 KAS students travel to Val di Fiemme in the Dolomites, Italy, for five days of fun on the slopes, accompanied by five teachers. Below you can read two accounts – one by a student, the other by a teacher – of the trip, and also…
Spotlight on: Classics Choice
KAS students with a passion for classical civilisations took a deep dive into Ancient Rome last term as part of our Upper School co-curricular programme. Having selected Classics for their Friday afternoon ‘Choice’ activity, the students – Hugo C, Inigo W (both Year 8), Tate K and Georgiy V (both Year 9) – decided to…
Berlin trip brings History to life
Year 10s studying GCSE History travelled to Berlin during Spring Term to experience some of the city’s historic sites. The trip brought new depth to their learnings on The Cold War, with visits to landmarks including the Brandenburg Gate, Checkpoint Charlie and the Berlin Wall. They also visited the Stasi Museum, where political prisoners and…
Mathletes find the positives following maths challenge
Mathletes representing The King Alfred School took part in the UK Maths Trust (UKMT) Team Challenge this term, travelling to the City of London School for a regional heat. With four rounds and 24 teams competing, the event tested the Upper School students’ mathematical problem-solving abilities while also developing their teamwork and communication skills. The…
Year 7 get creative with specialist workshops
Our Year 7 students enjoyed two days of creative workshops in the spring sunshine. While Art, Computing and Design Technology are all interwoven into students’ timetables as part of the Explorations programme, these day-long workshops gave students the time and opportunity to really get to grips with the equipment, ideas and techniques involved in these…
Space exploration ethics, AI, and restoring the balance
This Spring Term, students in Upper School have enjoyed deeper learning experiences on topics including the ethics of space exploration, whether AI should be embraced or feared, and the precarious nature of systems. The topics were considered as part of Explorations, interdisciplinary enquiry projects that our students complete in Years 6, 7 and 8 –…
Children’s Mental Health Week at KAS
To mark Children’s Mental Health Week (3-9 February), our pastoral care team devised a special events programme, sharing helpful advice on maintaining good mental health, highlighting emotional coping strategies, and encouraging students to support one another. Well-being activites Year 7 and 8 students were able to select from a menu of activities designed to promote…
